Contributed by : Peg Crain Luthy ©

     
Photographs by : Randy Crain

Greenbriar Cemetery is in Perry County, not far from the county line. It's directly south of the Pyramid Park (the old part on Pyatt's blacktop). We usually take Prairie Dog Rd off Pyatt's blacktop, it's a small rock road between two lakes, follow it out to the end and jog to the left on Wolf Road, not sure of the name of the road, don't go as far as Chipmunk. It's about an eighth to a quarter of a mile on the right. The sign is gone, but you can see it in a stand of trees, there is a really bad path through a field you can drive it in good weather. Located approximately in the SE quarter of T6S R3W of this area. A cousin, brother and I are working on getting a tall stone reset and restored. Various descendants of Benjamin and Cassandra Brown Crain are contributing to the cost also. We intend to make another sign for it too. The entries in red are from the county cemetery list, not sure what book as someone gave it to me years ago. The Stebbins CW vet I question his death date, haven't checked it out. Burt, Samuel - I thought was the same person as Burr, Samuel listed above him, but it may be two different people. There are many stones out there that are just sandstone stubs sticking up out of the ground. We have dug up at least a dozen that had fallen face first into the ground and been covered over. Someone took a brushhog thru there a couple years ago to cut the weeds, they also destroyed stones in doing so. I think the company doing the restoration is going to try to get us help from the boy scouts, or some such group to clean it up if we can. Peg

Greenbriar Cemetery Walked and Transcribed in October 1999 by : Peg Crain Luthy
Name	Born	Died	Notes
Becker, Henry	July 15, 1828 (1829)	Oct. 22, 1899 (1833)
Becker, Henry, Jr.	Mar. 12, 1859	May 31, 1877
Becker, William	Apr. 15, 1868	July 30, 1946
Brown, Alexander		Dec. 27, 1858	51y 6mo 6d
Bruder, Catherine	Feb. 15, 1858	July 13, 1890	Dau. of Henry Becker
Burr, Samuel	Jany 7, 1817	April 28, 1855	Husband of Elizabeth Burr
Burt, Samuel		April 28, 1877	84y
Campbell, Aaron E.	Nov. 13, 1861	Aug. 24, 1862
Campbell, Joseph	Aug. 9, 1816	May ?, 1878 ?
Crain, John	Oct. 25, 1847	Oct. 1, 1880 (Oct. 4)	age 32 yrs
Crain, Melle Clide	Sept. 1, 1873	Aug. 3, 1875	Dau. of J. & C. Crain
Crain, Benjamin		Oct. 18, 1888	Aged 88y 3m 21d
Crain, Cassandra	Jan. 13, 1813	Jan. 1, 1878	wife of Benjamin Crain (nee Brown)
Denny, Hester D.		May 2, 1860	Wife of Hiram
Evans, Mathias		March 13, 1865	1 yr. 3 mo. 17 d. son of T & L
Farrey, Mary	May 17, 1821	July 24, 1863
Finke, Henry C.	Aug. 5, 1806	Aug. 2, 1866	Great Grandfather of Laurence Mohr
Galloway, James	1828	1900
Galloway, Janet	1819	1896 (1898)
Goodaker, Elizabeth	Dec. 16, 1836	May 1, 1852	16 y 4 mo 15 days Dau. of Wm & Margaret
Goodaker, James L.	Feb. 25, 1839	Nov. 26, 1848	9 y 8 mo 26 days
Goodaker, Jane
Goodaker, Margaret	March 4, 1814	Feb. 27, 1850 (1860)	nee Campbell Wife of Wm 35 y 11 mo 22 d
Goodaker, Marian	Dec. 20, 1847	Oct. 3, 1854	Dau. of Wm & Margaret
Goodaker, William	Feb. 11, 1813	Nov. 25, 1877
Hamilton, Nancy J.		Oct. 20, 1866	25 y 2 m 2 d (37 y 3 m 7 d) (nee Thompson) Wife of A. B.
Hamilton, Mary L.		April 17, 1863	8 mo. 9 d. Dau. of A. B. & N. J.
Hamilton, Sarah J.		Sept. 27, 1865	4 mo. 9 d. Dau. of A. B. & N. J.
Hamilton, Thomas A.		April 20, 1866	6 y 1 mo. 7 d. Son of A. B. & N. J.
Hansford, Alfred		Dec. 1831
Hansford, Faitha		Dec. 30, 1839 (1858)	49 y 2 mo 9 d Wife of John
Hansford, John		Nov. 18, 1859	33 y
Hartley, Mary M.	Nov. 1850	Mar. 1860	10 y
Heiman, Fredrick C.	1875	1965
Heiman, Lovenia	1894	1917
Illig, Louisa C.		Aug. 14, 1884	19 y 6 m 7 d
Illig, Phillip		Feb. 12, 1875	43 y
Jenkins, James N.	1846 (1845)	1930	CW Co. L 13 IL Cav.
Jenkins, Nancy E. (R)	1847	1922	nee Colt
Jones, Elizabeth (J)		Feb. 24, 1899	17 y (47 y) 11 mo 9 d Wife of W. R. Jones (H R)
Keller (Kelley), Clarissa (J)		Sept. 25, 1856	1 y 3 m 1 d Dau. of J. W. S. & Lucy J.
Kiehne, Lut(wich)	1820 (1813)	1877 (1887)
Kiehne, Fredricke	1820	1977	Wife of Lutwich
Lawrence, Emanuel J.		April 2, 1859	20 y 4 m 27 d
Malone, Daniel	1808 ?	Dec. 26(28), 1841	Aged 33 yrs
Mansker, Martha		Jan. 25, 1866	23 y 7 m 26 d Wife of W. W. Mansker
McKinney, M. A. M.	1842	1912
McKinney, Mary	Nov. 1, 1898	July 21, 1926	Wife of Louis Vogel
McKinney, infant	Jan. 6, 1862	Jan. 6, 1862	Son of C. R. & Sarah A.
McKinney, Sarah	1881	1908	nee Wrolen, Wife of Phillip
Mead, Madora		March 21, 1880	Wife of Nicholas
Milligan, Newton C.	Sept. 24, 1865	May 20, 1877
Milligan, Joseph B.	May 20, 1820	Sept. 30, 1895
Moore, Samuel			CW Co. 1 6 IL Cav.
Pugh, Christean	1844	1926	Wife of David
Pugh, David	1838	1900
Pugh, Sam'l			Co. H 42nd IL Inf
Pugh, Vallie	May 10, 1882	July 12, 1963	Son of Dave & Christine
Pyatt, Ed			C W Veteran
Pyatt, Mary		Sept. 28, 1859 (26, 1869)	Dau. of E. J. & P. Pyatt
Roth, John J.		Oct. 10, 1867	14 y 9 m 2 d
Salley, Alfred		Oct. 6, 1869	Aged 40 yr 2 m 2 d C W Veteran
Salley, Susan		Feb. 21,(2), 1877	Aged 40 yr 2 m 21 d (43 y 2 m 21 d
Sowerby, Alfred		1869
Stebbins, Houston		Nov. 9, 1854	14 y 3 m2 d Son of J. O. & Ruadah
Stebbins, infant			Dau. of J. O. & Ruadah
Stebbins, John A.		Nov. 27, 1879	(38 y 9 m 7 d) C W Veteran
Thompson, James		Mar. 2 (May 2), 1861	Aged 86 y 2 m 1 d born N C
Thompson, Margaret	May (2) 21, 1784	Apr. 17, 1857	Aged 72 y 10 mo 26 days Wife of Jas. Thompson
Thompson, Mary E.		Nov. 9, 1855	7 y 7 m 5 d Dau. of J. N. & H. C.
Thompson, Mary S. (E)		Aug. 25, 1878	Aged 3 y 11 mo 21 d
Thompson, Paulina		July 2, 1851	9 y or 3 y Dau. of J. N. & H. C. Thompson
Thompson, Thomas A.		Mar. 21, 1858	Son of L. S. & J. J.
Vogel, Mary	Nov. 1, 1898	July 21, 1926 (5)	nee McKinney Wife of Louis Vogel
Wiehn, Michael	Aug. 15, 1828	Dec. 6, 1885
Willis, Alvira (J)		Feb. 28, 1824 (1874)	19 y 3 m 1 d Dau. of J. L. & E. C. Willis
Willis, Elizabeth G.		Feb. 27, 1873	42 y 1 d Wife of J. L.
Willis, Helen Candance		Feb. 16, 1873	5 y 10 mo 26 d
Willis, Mary C.		Dec. 20, 1876	12 y 2 m 25 d (29 d)
Willis, Mildred A.		1847 (Jul. 14, 1867)	46 y 9 m 1 d Wife of L. E. Dau. of J. E. Willis
Willis, Sarah May		Feb. 27, 1862	1 y 8 m Dau. of L. E. & M. A. (Mildred)Willis
Wrolen, Ethel		1890 (1892)
Wrolen, George	1851	1915
Wrolen, Opal	1913	1949
Wrolen, Rosella	1856	1892
Wrolen, Sarah	1882	1908	Wife of Phillip
McKinney
H H M		1873
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